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SiO Mr. IHcTcerins on the Pronunciation 



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" This brings to my mind a certain Greek, with wliora I con- 

 versed soon after I came to the University. Upon my first meet- 

 ing him, he put my ears to the torture by a pronunciation altogeth- 

 er unheard of by me till that time ; for, when T asked him some- 

 thing, which T do not now recollect, he replied, like a person that 

 did not understand what I had said, by asking — rt f/^^i \iyic kipis. 

 I was equally at a loss to know what he said, and I requested 

 him to write it down, which he did with perfect correctness as to 



orthography, thus— r//Ao< XgVs/?> «yf/£. I praised his ortJi 

 phij, but censured his ^pronunciation. He, on the other hand, con- 

 demned mif pronunciation as coarse and rustic ; for 1 pronounced 

 according to our custom, Ttj moi legeis, kurie ; which, as soon 

 as he had heard, he could not refrain from laughing, and said to 



jO(p£^/g ay^iKu; tcUc^ that is, you pronounce in a rustic man- 



\KvcrQv, xi^n' ^7 yVo; T^o(pg^;v, korTiui irugt (I write as he pro- 



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d) Hear me, Sir, you ought to pronounce as the peopl 



cities (or polite people) do ; thus, ri fAt Xey/j, x/gisy aXXa>$ h 

 y§u<piv, but you must write differently, thus, Tt fiot Xzyug, xC^te, 

 I then proceeded to request him to write down the pronunciation 

 of the vowels and diphthongs, which he did after this mannei 



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too \jroi 



rtiv\ui\ ug Sj olov Iraijrs. 



By this method I began to comprehend him with ease, 

 he pronounced according to his manner. I continued th 



U^g oh hu(pi^u raura aXX^'X^p, fjf^sTg ku) vu.ug ; J ^Jc huy 



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